Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki told reporters here that they were hanged at three locations early in the morning.
He ordered the executions after giving "careful consideration" to the matter.
Kaoru Kobayashi, 44, killed a seven-year-old girl and sent a photograph of her body to her mother in 2004, while Masahiro Kanagawa, 29, killed one man and injured seven others in a knifing spree outside a Tokyo shopping mall in 2008.
He also murdered another man in a separate incident the same year.
The third killer executed was Keiki Muto, 62, who strangled a bar owner for money in 2002.
"These were extremely cruel cases in which victims were deprived of their precious lives for very selfish reasons," Tanigaki said.
The executions follow the hanging of two death-row inmates in September 2012, when the previous government of center-left Democratic Party was in power.
Although Japan did not execute any condemned inmates in 2011, the previous Democratic Party government resumed the practice in March 2012 by executing three multiple murderers.
Death penalty is reserved for multiple murders in Japan. Apart from the United States, Japan is the only other industrialized nation to retain the death penalty despite strong criticism from European nations as well as human rights groups.
It is estimated that there are 134 inmates on death-row in Japan. They include Shoko Asahara, the mastermind behind the 1995 sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway that killed 13 people and sickened about 6,300.
The executions were Japan's first since two death-row inmates were hanged in September under a centre-left Democratic Party of Japan government.
Japan did not execute any condemned inmates in 2011, the first full year in nearly two decades without an execution amid muted debate on the rights and wrongs of a policy that enjoys wide public support.
But in March last year, Tokyo resumed its use of capital punishment with an unapologetic government minister signing death warrants for three multiple murderers
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